Columbia Wanger

Columbia Wanger Asset Management

Last Update: 2013-05-14

Number of Stocks: 312
Number of New Stocks: 16

Total Value: $23,086 Mil
Q/Q Turnover: 4%

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Columbia Wanger's Profile & Performance

Profile

Web Page:http://www.columbiafunds.com/

Investing Philosophy

Takes a disciplined approach, identifying the risks, to pursue consistent returns, Interprets the latest economic and market trends, Provides recognized, thought leadership

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Commentaries and Stories

Currently 4.33/5

Rating: 4.3/5 (3 votes)

POL Reports Dividend Growth, Increased Guru Ownership and Insider Ownership

May 14, 2013

PolyOne (POL) is a provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions with operations in specialty polymer formulations, color and additive systems, thermoplastic resin distribution and specialty vinyl resins. PolyOne is a mid-cap stock with a market capitalization of $2.35 billion. More...

Currently 3.67/5

Rating: 3.7/5 (9 votes)

Go Fish in a Sea of 52-Week Lows

May 12, 2013

INDUSTRIAL METALS & MINERALS, BANKS - REGIONAL - US, OIL & GAS E&P

Currently 3.75/5

Rating: 3.8/5 (4 votes)

Insider Buys at 52-Week Lows

May 4, 2013

Several insiders made buys this week as the price of their companies hit or neared 52-week low prices. The following insider buys were chosen as the insider buys at 52-week lows with the highest total transaction amounts. More...

Currently 4.00/5

Rating: 4.0/5 (1 vote)

Insider Sells at 52-Week Lows

April 19, 2013

This week we saw some large insider sells as their companies are nearing or are at their 52-week low prices. Note: These are not the only insider sells at 52-week lows. To view the complete list, click here. [b] More...

Currently 5.00/5

Rating: 5.0/5 (1 vote)

Insider Buys at 52-Week Low

April 15, 2013

This past week we have seen several insiders buying back into their company when share prices are at or near their 52-week low. It is interesting to note these buys because researching these companies can help you find undervalued stocks that are oftentimes neglected by Wall Street. More...

Currently 4.00/5

Rating: 4.0/5 (4 votes)

Group Selling for Coca-Cola Highlights American Insider Trades This Week

April 12, 2013

This week in American insider trading we saw an increase in buying amongst insiders in the petroleum and oil industries. This also mirrors the increase in insider transactions we saw in the oil and natural gas industries in the Canadian stock market. In the highlighted insider sells there was an increase in groups of insiders making sells in large corporations such as Coca-Cola and Tractor Supply. More...

Currently 4.50/5

Rating: 4.5/5 (2 votes)

More Legal Woes, ITT Educational Services (ESI) at 52-Week Low

April 8, 2013

The GuruFocus 52-week low screener reveals that ITT Educational Services Inc. (ESI) is at a 52-week low of $12.01 (the high was $74.55). According to the GuruFocus Value Screen for 52-week lows, ESI is 83.9% off its high. But top Gurus Columbia Wanger and Westport Asset Management are holding on to small chunks, and ESI insider trading has been slow this quarter. More...

EDUCATION & TRAINING SERVICES

Currently 2.50/5

Rating: 2.5/5 (6 votes)

Large Retailers Report Insider Transactions

April 3, 2013

This week has already seen some significant insider transactions from companies with big names. Interestingly, all of these transactions come from large corporations involved in the retail industry. More...

Currently 2.80/5

Rating: 2.8/5 (5 votes)

Insider Buys at 52-Week Lows

March 27, 2013

This week, we have seen several insiders buying back into their company when share prices are at or near their 52-Week Low. It is interesting to note these buys because researching these companies can help you find under-valued small cap stocks that are oftentimes overlooked by Wall Street. More...

Currently 3.75/5

Rating: 3.8/5 (4 votes)

American Insider Trades March 15-21

March 22, 2013

This week in American insider trading we saw a lot of corporate executives making big buy backs into their companies. Some notable buys came from the medical and financial industries. We also saw several large insider sells from companies like Trulia, Proto Labs, and Coca-Cola Enterprises. More...

Currently 3.00/5

Rating: 3.0/5 (2 votes)

Insider Buy for Dresser-Rand Group Highlights Oil and Gas Industries

March 11, 2013

On March 8 the CEO and president of Dresser-Rand Group Inc. (DRC) added almost 18,000 shares to his stake. This insider trade marks the first insider buy for Dresser-Rand since 2008 and the first insider trade since May of last year. More...

DRC

Currently 3.25/5

Rating: 3.3/5 (4 votes)

Columbia Management's Colin Moore Discusses Dow Near All-Time High

March 1, 2013

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Currently 1.00/5

Rating: 1.0/5 (2 votes)

Weekly Guru Bargains Highlights: HMSY, MLNX, AAPL, MMP, LQDT

February 12, 2013

According to GuruFocus updates, these stocks have declined the most since Gurus have bought. More...

Currently 5.00/5

Rating: 5.0/5 (1 vote)

Columbia Management Comments on General Mills

January 23, 2013

We closed our position in General Mills (GIS) during the quarter. The diversified food products maker is a high-quality name, but management addressed the explosion in demand for the Greek yogurt too late in our view. (Yogurt is approximately 9% of sales at General Mills.) Additionally, rising input costs for cereal and increasing competition in the category have been squeezing net margins. With declining potential for stock gains, we elected to close the position. From Columbia Wanger’s fourth quarter commentary. More...

Currently 4.67/5

Rating: 4.7/5 (3 votes)

Columbia Management Comments on Freeport McMoRan

January 23, 2013

We continue to have a positive view of industrials (and materials) companies. Relative underperformance in the materials sector was largely driven by new portfolio holding Freeport McMoRan (FCX). Freeport McMoRan is the world's largest publicly traded copper company; we added the stock to the portfolio in October. The company has global reserves of copper, gold and other metals, a strong balance sheet, and, despite weakness in the global economy, generates significant free-cash-flow, even at lower copper prices. Freeport McMoRan shares fell during the quarter after the company announced the acquisition of an oil and gas company. (Investors would have preferred that the company remain focused on copper and metals.) We believe the long-term demand for metals remains positive, particularly from China and Asia, where large infrastructure projects continue to move forward, and expect Freeport McMoRan to recover as it returns to trading in line with the price of copper. More...

Currently 0.00/5

Rating: 0.0/5 (0 votes)

Columbia Select Large-Cap Value Fund Q4 Letter

January 23, 2013

Fund performance Excluding sales charge, Class A shares of Columbia Select Large-Cap Value Fund outperformed its benchmark, the Russell 1000 Value Index for the fourth quarter, returning 4.67% vs. the benchmark's 1.52%. Top sector-level contributors to relative return included financials and energy (due to stock picking). Top sector-level detractors to relative return included materials and consumer discretionary (also due to stock picking). For up-to-date performance, please visit columbiamanagement.com. More...

Currently 3.50/5

Rating: 3.5/5 (6 votes)

Columbia Wanger Becomes 10.8% Owner of Exa Corp.

January 9, 2013

Currently 3.67/5

Rating: 3.7/5 (6 votes)

The Newly Rebalanced Buffett-Munger Portfolio

January 2, 2013

Currently 3.75/5

Rating: 3.8/5 (8 votes)

Most Market Value Returns of the Buffett-Munger Model Portfolio

December 26, 2012

Currently 3.17/5

Rating: 3.2/5 (6 votes)

Tremors in California — Is This a Trend? Columbia White Paper

August 15, 2012

Given recent headlines out of California, municipal bond investors would likely be surprised to learn that municipal bankruptcies in 2012 are actually below those of 2011, both in number and dollar amount, and that 2011’s filings were in turn lower than those in 2010. Overall municipal defaults and bankruptcies remain exceedingly low. However, with developments in California in recent weeks, a municipal investor could be forgiven for presuming that a tectonic shift in municipal credit quality was underway. Over a period of several weeks, Stockton and Mammoth Lakes filed for bankruptcy and San Bernardino and Compton are now actively exploring the possibility. While troubling in that they occurred so close together, these cities (specifically Stockton, San Bernardino and Compton) represent very troubled credits, both economically and fiscally, pushed to the edge by the housing bust and/or by poor or negligent management. More...